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        that was the time

good time to shut things down put up his shotglass and bottle put away his rampant imaginings if he could

                                                                                                                             they often got the better of himfollowed him into the bathroom hung around during his toiletry followed him into the bedroom helped him pull down the blanket sheet pull the pillows apart so theyd lie be to either side of his head enormous mammaries

HA WORD hadnt uploaded mammaries in red it underlined it a possible misspelling possible WORD was a prude  he imagined the pillows as breast they helped him sleep anwhy not there was nothing like sleeping with a breast pressed against his face

he laidclosed his eyes 

nuzzled his head side to side cool cotton skin

his imaginings leaned over him 

breathed in his face

Time for sleep boys an grrls

they may be deafhe didnt know visual creatures

                                                    they didnt talk to him

it was harder for them to seep into his head if they didnt have his eyes as portals

Portals closed gang Go away

only the stubborn ones persisted

                                   persisted until he began snoring

 

WAKE UP! an go to sleep.

Jesus elbow caught him in the ribs Wha Whas goin on

You’re snoring.

Snoring

Yes.

Snoring

Yes yes yes. 

Yasay  Wakeup an go to sleep

I did.

I breath through my mouth busted my nose too many times ya know that

Then quit breathing.

Ouch  

Saturday,  2  4. 22

1823,  Monday,  4  4. 22

he went to two colleges

No  not graduate school

dropped out of both

                     school wasnt his cup of tea

dodging the Draft his parents enrolled him at Chicago Circle Campus

he lasted one year and a quarter

during that time he turned into quite a good pool player 

                                                          met and hung out with a huge black man he called niggercouldnt enunciate his African name Shaddupjust shaddup . . Ya call me nigger, I’ll call ya polack.

they shook

they worked nicely thrashed black and white bar tables across the city their mélange I like that, nigger said  incited provoked games had too much fun made plenty of cash

                            

the Draft croaked

his parents werent happy

someone needed to keep an eye on his grandmother so they moved him to Florida enrolled him in college there

he was Out inside two years 

while therethat first Fall he discovered to his dismay that the college had a Homecoming  Circle was a commuter college no dorms students socialised by convening and participating in anti-war marches that were blastedbusted up by cops on horseback who acted like polo players  exciting stuff

Homecoming in Miami  Bread was the headliner at the dance

Are you going? he was asked

ChristNO  Doesnt this high school bullshit ever stop

1730,  Saturday,  2  4. 22

1041,  Monday,  4  4. 22

Bread  I Want to Make It with You  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFeKe15zOAU